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At only 24 years old, Olivia Rees definitely scores among the youngest and most promising debuts of 2020, with her brand new album, entitled simply “Exposed”. Appropriate to the title, the album is an exploration that offers great insight into Rees’s character, with deeply moving tracks that leave us little choice but to empathize with the artist.
Featuring tracks like “Trust Issues” and “Darker Night”, the album also has no trouble resonating with our own feelings and experiences. “Exposed” is that rare kind of music that strikes a chord with a wide range of listeners, many even who wouldn’t normally listen to this genre.
Hailing from a tumultuous background, riddled with disappointment, Rees bares her heart and soul on tracks like “Body Language” and “Leave It Alone”. According to the artist herself, the former was penned after an unpleasant relationship. “Body Language” explores what is commonly known as the “gas-lighting effect”, in which someone convinces a person they are close to that they are insane, when they are in fact not. It’s a complex track and definitely not one that is easy to digest, but still a worthy listen that will reach into the darker corners of your soul and latch unto something primordial inside you.
“Leave It Alone” serves as a potent afterthought to “Body Language”. Being one of the very first songs penned by the artist, it’s got a raw and gut-wrenching feel to it, especially when you take the time to pay attention to each lyric.
“My lips taste like tequila, my kisses like cigarettes. My mind is filled with memories, they help me to forget,” Rees sings and it’s exactly with lyrics like this that she captures the audience’s attention (and heart) and what makes us think she will go far in the future. Touching upon such a global issue – that of how you deal with disappointment and pain, and particularly the unhealthy impulse to bury these things with alcohol and other damaging things – immediately makes the tune appeal to a wide range of listeners. And Olivia’s compelling, haunting voice only adds to the beauty of the track. To each song on the album, there is this sort of strange, delicious intimacy that gives you the feeling Olivia Rees wrote the tune just for you to listen to it, which is a wonderful, rare feeling, and why we think you should not give this one a miss and go check it out right now on Spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5oLO98KL1N47JhJoVFtqtC?si=2YYmEPCFQ4qHPmYEX9oToQ
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/exposed/1523110512
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